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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovationby Tim Brown
The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. In reality, most innovations are borne from rigor and discipline.
Change.eduby Andrew S Rosen
It's no wonder American higher education is facing a crisis.While low-income students can't find a spot in their local community colleges for lack of funding, public four-year universities are spending staggering sums on luxurious residence halls, ever-bigger football stadiums, and obscure research institutes. We have cosseted our most advantaged students even as we deny access to the working adults who urgently need higher education to advance their careers and our economy. In Change.edu: Rebooting for the new talent economy Andrew S. Rosen clearly and entertainingly details how far the American higher education system has strayed from the goals of access, quality, affordability, and accountability that should characterize our system, and offers a prescription to restore American educational pre-eminence.To change, our system will have to end its reflexive opposition to anything new and different. Rosen describes how each new wave of innovation and expansion of educational access-- starting with the founding of Harvard in 1636, and continuing with the advent of land-grant colleges in the 19th century, community colleges in the 20th century and private sector colleges over the last two decades--has been met with misunderstanding and ridicule. When colleges like the University of California, Cornell and Purdue were founded, they were scorned as "pretenders to the title of university" - language that tracks later criticisms of community colleges and most recently for-profit colleges.Avoiding that condescension is just one of the reasons colleges have come under the sway of "Harvard Envy" - schools that were founded to expand access feel an inexorable tug to become more prestigious and exclusive. Even worse, the competition for the best students has led universities to turn themselves into full-fledged resorts; they've built climbing walls, French bistros and 20-person hot-tubs to entice students to their campuses.How can America address an incentive system in higher education that is mismatched to the challenges of the years ahead? In Change.edu, Rosen outlines "seven certainties" of education in the coming 25 years, and presents an imperative for how our system must prepare for the coming changes. He proposes a new "playbook" for dealing with the change ahead, one that will enable American higher education to regain its global primacy and be a catalyst for economic growth in the 21st century.
Changing Cultures in Higher Educationby Ulf-Daniel Ehlers Dirk Schneckenberg
More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. Web 2.0 tools give learners more control, by allowing them to easily create, share or reuse their own learning materials, and these tools also enable social learning networks that bridge the border between formal and informal learning. However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching. Ehlers and Schneckenberg present strategic approaches for innovation in universities. The contributions explore new models for developing and engaging faculty in technology-enhanced education, and they detail underlying reasons for why quality assessment and evaluation in new - and often informal - learning scenarios have to change. Their book is a practical guide for educators, aimed at answering these questions. It describes what E-learning 2.0 is, which basic elements of Web 2.0 it builds on, and how E-learning 2.0 differs from Learning 1.0. The book also details a number of quality methods and examples, such as self-assessment, peer-review, social recommendation, and peer-learning, using illustrative cases and giving practical recommendations. Overall, it offers a step-by-step guide for educators so that they can choose their own quality assurance or assessment methods, or develop their own evaluation methodology for specific learning scenarios. The book addresses everyone involved in higher education - university leaders, chief information officers, change and quality assurance managers, and faculty developers. Pedagogical advisers and consultants will find new insights and practices for the integration and management of novel learning technologies in higher education. The volume fosters in lecturers and teachers a sound understanding of the need and strategy for change, and it provides them with practical recommendations on competence and quality methodologies.
The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructureby Steering Committee on the Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure
Advancement of telecommunications and information infrastructure occurs largely through private investment. The government affects the rate and direction of this progress through regulation and public investment. This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a succinct analysis followed by papers prepared by experts in telecommunications policy and applications.
Channel Codesby William E. Ryan Shu Lin
Channel coding lies at the heart of digital communication and data storage, and this detailed introduction describes the core theory as well as decoding algorithms, implementation details, and performance analyses. Known for their writing clarity, Professors Ryan and Lin provide the latest information on modern channel codes, including turbo and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. They also present detailed coverage of BCH codes, Reed-Solomon codes, convolutional codes, finite geometry codes, and product codes, providing a one-stop resource for both classical and modern coding techniques. Assuming no prior knowledge in the field of channel coding, the opening chapters begin with basic theory to introduce newcomers to the subject. Later chapters then extend to advanced topics such as code ensemble performance analyses and algebraic code design. 250 varied and stimulating end-of-chapter problems are also included to test and enhance learning, making this an essential resource for students and practitioners alike.
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valleyby Antonio Garcia Martinez
Liar's Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager and startup founder/CEO.The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple:Investors are people with more money than time.Employees are people with more time than money.Entrepreneurs are the seductive go-between.Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this "chaos monkey" to test online services' robustness--their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society's chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder). One of Silicon Valley's most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez.After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook's nascent advertising team, turning its users' data into profit for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark "Zuck" Zuckerberg. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company's monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. He also fathered two children with a woman he barely knew, committed lewd acts and brewed illegal beer on the Facebook campus (accidentally flooding Zuckerberg's desk), lived on a sailboat, raced sport cars on the 101, and enthusiastically pursued the life of an overpaid Silicon Valley wastrel.Now, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future. Weighing in on everything from startups and credit derivatives to Big Brother and data tracking, social media monetization and digital "privacy," García Martínez shares his scathing observations and outrageous antics, taking us on a humorous, subversive tour of the fascinatingly insular tech industry. Chaos Monkeys lays bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world. The question is, will we survive?
Characterisation of a Personal Learning Environment as a Lifelong Learning Toolby Sabrina Leone
This work focuses on the characterization of adult lifelong learners' Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) by implicit and explicit tools of personalization. It aims aims toward creating a system for the development of a learning path for the characterisation of PLE for adult life learners. The synergy of formal and informal learning in the dynamic construction of a lifelong learner's PLE is fully explored, with the recognition that the majority of learning, especially for life long learners, occurs outside traditional learning formats. Specifically, this volume discusses the design, implementation, and validation of the SSW4LL (Social Semantic Web for Lifelong Learners) format, and the the SSW4LL system, built on Moodle 2.0 integrated with an adaptive mechanism (conditional activities) and some tools of Social Semantic Web (Semantic MediaWiki, Diigo and Google+). With thoroughly grounded cases studies, this volume makes the case that these systems are suitable to provide a dynamically personalized learning environment to the lifelong learner. All of these environments are fully discussed and cases made for each as a tool for constructing adult learners' PLEs.
Chat Freakby Kristi D. Holl
Fourteen-year-old Morgan alienates her friends when she spends all of her time online talking to strangers in various chat rooms.
Chat Room (Orca Currents)by Kristin Butcher
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Chef Essentialsby John Ewart
If you have some understanding of IT infrastructure principles and are ready to find out what Chef is all about, then this guide will show you all you need to know. In order to get the most out of this book, some experience of programming or scripting languages would be useful.
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbookby Matthias Marschall
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook contains practical recipes on everything you will need to automate your infrastructure using Chef. The book is packed with illustrated code examples to automate your server and cloud infrastructure.The book first shows you the simplest way to achieve a certain task. Then it explains every step in detail, so that you can build your knowledge about how things work. Eventually, the book shows you additional things to consider for each approach. That way, you can learn step-by-step and build profound knowledge on how to go about your configuration management automation.This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, the book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.
Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook - Second Editionby Matthias Marschall
This book is for system engineers and administrators who have a fundamental understanding of information management systems and infrastructure. It helps if you've already played around with Chef; however, this book covers all the important topics you will need to know. If you don't want to dig through a whole book before you can get started, this book is for you, as it features a set of independent recipes you can try out immediately.
CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Developmentby Sylvain Hellegouarch
The book starts with two chapters dedicated to CherryPy, its history and installation. It then moves through a gentle introduction to the main features and concepts of CherryPy to a thorough review of its core capabilities. After laying this foundation the book dives into a real-world example, detailing important steps in the creation of a photoblog application. These chapters cover database manipulation via Object Relational Mapping (ORM), using web services to enhance the application, and client-side scripting through AJAX. Finally, the book covers the need for unit, functional, and performance testing before closing with deployment solutions for a CherryPy-based application. This book is principally geared towards Python web developers, who are looking to add the power of the CherryPy library to their existing Python skillset. It assumes a good working knowledge of Python. Although the CherryPy toolkit is at the core of the book, many other common libraries are introduced
China Dawn: Culture and Conflict in China's Business Revolutionby David Sheff
Imagine living through the breakthrough moments of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the other icons of today's new economy. The kind of technological revolution that they led in Silicon Valley is now sweeping through China, but with much more dramatic implications. The dynamic entrepreneurs who are using technology to radically transform business and cultural life in China are fighting not only outdated business models and a tumultuous economy but also an unpredictable government that has a love-hate relationship with the Net, at once pushing its expansion at a feverish pace and censoring it. As Duncan Clark, cofounder of BDA, an Internet consulting company in Beijing, told author David Sheff, "This environment -- the regulations, the competition, the political uncertainties -- makes these the fastest, most courageous, nimblest-thinking people globally. To deal with this level of risk and still sleep is no small accomplishment. But they're hooked on it like some Chinese are becoming hooked on Starbucks cappuccino."In this irresistible, groundbreaking book, Sheff takes us into the trenches of the Chinese technology revolution, introducing the major and minor players who are leading China into the twenty-first century. Players like Bo Feng, the charismatic former sushi chef who is now one of the leading venture capitalists in China. And Edward Tian, a national hero who has been described as China's Steve Jobs and Bill Gates combined, who left his own start-up on the eve of its IPO in order to lead the government's attempt to bring broadband to the entire nation, in the process leapfrogging the United States, Europe, and the rest of Asia with the longest and fastest network in the world. As the U.S. technological revolution wanes, business leaders will be looking to the billion-plus potential customers in China for new growth. In addition, the world's newest member of the World Trade Organization will no longer be a bystander in the global economy; it will be a fierce competitor. And when hundreds of million Chinese have access to unprecedented information and communication, China itself will be profoundly altered. Jay Chang, an analyst who covers China for Credit Suisse First Boston, sums the seismic nature of the changes: "What happens when China successfully transforms from a mainly agrarian/industrial nation into one that has significant input from the information technology industry? What happens when eighty percent of the state-owned enterprises in China are able to link economically to the global Internet on fast pipes? What happens when China's engineering talent pool is able to gain access to high-end computing resources and exchange ideas and information easily with their global peers? What happens when fifty percent of the Chinese population gets wired in ten years -- six hundred million people, the largest number of Internet users in the world?" With its compelling, character-driven story, researched over the course of three years, China Dawn will be the definitive book on the subject.
The China Information Technology Handbookby Miltiadis D. Lytras Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
This handbook is a reference for those interested in information technologies and emerging management practices in China. The emphasis on information technologies and management provides a unique proposition and gives characteristics of flexibility and adoption to diverse audiences. The subject area is a combination of global information technology and management along with strategic management of IT. The handbook exploits state-of-the-art and emerging trends in theory and technology. This handbook is primarily designed for a professional and academic audience.
China Onlineby Véronique Michel Sebastien Koval Claude Muller Marcio Lobo
Dive into China's cool new web-based subculture with China Online!Using Baidu, China's form of Google, young Chinese web-surfers are creating their own language on the Internet. With this book, you can get an insider's view of the way the new wave of Chinese youth communicates in code. Author and translator Véronique Michel guides you on a tour of the lifestyles inhabiting modern-day "tribes" on the Internet: The "Moonlight" or "Starlight" TribeThe "Ant" TribeThe "Corporate Insects"The "Diamond Man"China Online describes a youth culture in transition-using humor and creativity to survive in a hugely competitive environment. They enjoy pun-including the ingenious "talking numbers" used to say more things with fewer keystrokes and characters. There is a great deal that lies under the surface. Learn the secret netspeak used by over half a billion of the coolest people in China, and be in the know!
China's Disruptorsby Edward Tse
In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest-ever initial public offering. Since then, millions of investors and managers worldwide have pondered a fundamental question: What's really going on with the new wave of China's disruptors? Alibaba wasn't an outlier--it's one of a rising tide of thriving Chinese companies, mostly but not exclusively in the technology sector. Overnight, its founder, Jack Ma, appeared on the same magazine covers as American entrepreneurial icons like Mark Zuckerberg. Ma was quickly followed by the founders of other previously little-known companies, such as Baidu, Tencent, and Xiaomi.Over the past two decades, an unprecedented burst of entrepreneurialism has transformed China's economy from a closed, impoverished, state-run system into a major power in global business. As products in China become more and more sophisticated, and as its companies embrace domestically developed technology, we will increasingly see Chinese goods setting global standards. Meanwhile, companies in the rest of the world wonder how they can access the fast-rising incomes of China's 1.3 billion consumers.Now Edward Tse, a leading global strategy consultant, reveals how China got to this point, and what the country's rise means for the United States and the rest of the world. Tse has spent more than twenty years working with senior Chinese executives, learning firsthand how China's most powerful companies operate. He's an expert on how private firms are thriving in what is still, officially, a communist country. His book draws on exclusive interviews and case studies to explore questions such as*What drives China's entrepreneurs? Personal fame and fortune--or a quest for national pride and communal achievement?*How do these companies grow so quickly? In 2005, Lenovo sold just one category of products (personal computers) in one market, China. Today, not only is it the world's largest PC seller; it is also the world's third-largest smartphone seller.*How does Chinese culture shape the strategies and tactics of these business leaders? Can outsiders copy what the Chinese are doing?*Can capitalists really thrive within a communist system? How does Tencent's Pony Ma serve as a member of China's parliament while running a company that dominates online games and messaging?*What impact will China have on the rest of the world as its private companies enter new markets, acquire foreign businesses, and threaten established firms in countless industries?As Tse concludes: "I believe that as a consequence of the opening driven by China's entrepreneurs, the push to invest in science, research, and development, and the new freedoms that people are enjoying across the country, China has embarked on a renaissance that could rival its greatest era in history--the Tang dynasty. These entrepreneurs are the front line in China's intense hunger for success. They will have an even more remarkable impact on the global economy in the future, through the rest of this decade and beyond."From the Hardcover edition.
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolutionby T. R. Reid
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world's brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. In this completely revised and updated edition of The Chip, T. R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their invention and of its growth into a global information industry. This is the story of how the digital age began.
Choosing an Open Source CMS: Beginner's Guideby Nirav Mehta
This is a practical guide that takes a task-centered approach. Each task is stepped through with detailed instructions. You will come across many step-by-step examples with plenty of screenshots and resources. This book provides all the support and guidance you need as you begin to work with CMSs. It even has additional tasks that you can carry out to build your skills further. Everything is oriented towards managing content with a CMS. This book is written for anyone who wants to start a web site and is looking for a good CMS. It is best suited for people who are selecting a CMS for their sites and people who will manage a CMS. Knowledge of web basics is certainly helpful, but not needed.
Chrissaby Mary Casanova
Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly. On the advice of her grandmother, Chrissa tries first to be nice, and then to ignore the mean girls. But they just won't quit, and when the teasing turns into serious bullying, Chrissa must find the courage to stand strong and speak out.
Chrissa Stands Strongby Mary Casanova
Chrissa's had a good summer, practicing for swim team tryouts. Then her world is shaken when she and her friends get mean text messages and there's an accident at the pool. Can one girl put an end to the bullying?
Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Codeby Carolyn L. Kane
These days, we take for granted that our computer screens--and even our phones--will show us images in vibrant full color. Digital color is a fundamental part of how we use our devices, but we never give a thought to how it is produced or how it came about. Chromatic Algorithms reveals the fascinating history behind digital color, tracing it from the work of a few brilliant computer scientists and experimentally minded artists in the late 1960s and early '70s through to its appearance in commercial software in the early 1990s. Mixing philosophy of technology, aesthetics, and media analysis, Carolyn Kane shows how revolutionary the earliest computer-generated colors were--built with the massive postwar number-crunching machines, these first examples of "computer art" were so fantastic that artists and computer scientists regarded them as psychedelic, even revolutionary, harbingers of a better future for humans and machines. But, Kane shows, the explosive growth of personal computing and its accompanying need for off-the-shelf software led to standardization and the gradual closing of the experimental field in which computer artists had thrived. Even so, the gap between the bright, bold presence of color onscreen and the increasing abstraction of its underlying code continues to lure artists and designers from a wide range of fields, and Kane draws on their work to pose fascinating questions about the relationships among art, code, science, and media in the twenty-first century.
Chromebook For Dummiesby Mark Lafay
Get the most out of your Google ChromebookAre you the proud new owner of a Google Chromebook and a little--or a lot--intimidated by the technology? You've come to the right place! Chromebook For Dummies walks you through setting up the device, transitioning from traditional computers and working in the cloud, customizing Chromebook to suit your needs, navigating the apps and their uses, and applying advanced settings and features. Fear not: with the step-by-step guidance and helpful information inside, there's no reason to break a sweat.Chromebooks are affordable, fast, and sleek--and with Google driving the initiative, they're impossible to ignore. So it's no wonder they're gaining popularity and enticing people from all walks of life to make the switch from a traditional PC or laptop. If you're one of those people and want to make the most of your experience, this book is a practical user's guide to all things Chromebook.Covers all Chromebooks on the marketProvides coverage of all Chromebook features in an easy-to-follow mannerServes as the go-to reference for successfully using a ChromebookIncludes step-by-step coverage of everything you'll encounter with your ChromebookIf you're a new or inexperienced user who wants to maximize the performance of your Google Chromebook, you'll turn to this friendly guide time and again.
ChronoForms 3.1 for Joomla! site Cookbookby Bob Janes
Cinder – Begin Creative Codingby Krisjanis Rijnieks
Presented in an easy to follow, tutorial-style format, this book will lead you step-by-step through the multi-faceted uses of Cinder."Cinder: Begin Creative Coding" is for people who already have experience in programming. It can serve as a transition from a previous background in Processing, Java in general, JavaScript, openFrameworks, C++ in general or ActionScript to the framework covered in this book, namely Cinder. If you like quick and easy to follow tutorials that will let yousee progress in less than an hour - this book is for you. If you are searching for a book that will explain algorithms for complex 2D and 3D generative animations and use of advanced C++ and / or Open GL features - it is not.
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Polaris Introduces Revolutionary New Off-Road Vehicle
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Polaris Industries Inc. today announced the company's Terrain Armor Non-Pneumatic Tire (NPT) was a finalist for Tire Technology of the Year by Tire Technology International.
Polaris Introduces Two New RANGER Work Vehicles
Polaris Industries Inc. announced the addition of two new vehicles to the Hardest Working, Smoothest Riding RANGER utility line of side-by-sides.
Polaris Donates Polaris POWER Generators to Salvation Army for Tornado Relief Efforts
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Polaris Enters 10-Year Exclusive Partnership With Boy Scouts of America
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Dr. Stan Dacko, chair and associate professor of physical therapy, has announced that Lebanon Valley College has added two new majors to join its nationally known physical therapy program. Athletic training, a 3+2 program leading to a master's degree, and exercise science, a four-year baccalaureate program, will welcome their first classes in fall 2015. The application process to be part of this competitive—and historic—class is already underway.
"I am pleased that the College is adding programs in the health and wellness sciences that build on the already nationally recognized LVC doctor of physical therapy program," Dr. Dacko said. "I am equally pleased that our graduates will have strong employment options once they graduate from LVC. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that there will be an anticipated 19 percent increase in employment prospects within the next decade for athletic trainers and exercise science majors."
The freshman entry master's degree program is purposefully designed for engaging collaboration with health care majors, professionals, and LVC's nationally successful intercollegiate athletics program. Athletic training majors will work with student-athletes and coaches from the College's 24 intercollegiate teams and will benefit from LVC's excellent training and competition facilities. They will also have opportunities to work and/or intern with other athletics-related facilities and events.
Athletic trainers are members of a health care team involved in evaluating, diagnosing, and treating individuals with sports-related injuries, and who also advise on best methodologies for the active prevention of injuries. At LVC, after a competitive admission process, athletic training majors will spend their first three years on campus taking foundational and general education courses before moving onto two years of professional training and courses.
Luke Berguson '15, D'17 is a member of the men's basketball team and entering his fourth year as a student athletic trainer, one of 20+ current student athletic trainers. In the fall, Luke works with the football team and works with the men's and women's tennis teams in the spring. He has also been known to help out with the women's basketball team at times, helping them before suiting up to play in his own game.
"I think it's great that majors in these new programs will have the opportunity to work with LVC's certified athletic trainers—Erin Ulrich, Caitlin Foltz, and Megan Inama—which I believe are among the best in the Middle Atlantic Conference," Berguson said. "LVC will provide these students with real-life experiences and learning opportunities that I know they will directly benefit from."
The unique nature of this 3+2 program will enable athletic training majors to earn a bachelor's degree in exercise science in four years and a master's degree in athletic training after the fifth year.
In addition to a national search for a program director, the College will seek accreditation of the program from the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE), which is expected in 2020. This will allow graduates to be eligible to take the Board of Certification Exam (BOC) after completion of the program.
An athletic training master's degree provides several additional career options, including certification as an Emergency Medical Technician or as a certified strength and conditioning specialist. Graduates work in a variety of career settings, including in colleges and universities, professional sports teams, high schools and middle schools, as physician extenders, and industrial or occupational medicine.
A complementary option, a bachelor's in exercise science, will also be available to those wishing to graduate in the traditional four years. Students in LVC's Exercise Science Program will explore the interaction between exercise and human performance with supportive, responsive, and experienced faculty. They will also examine the factors involved in health and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.
Exercise science majors will initially take courses in basic foundational sciences, followed by a content area that has a direct application to exercise prescription and rehabilitation. They will also complete an impactful, hands-on practicum experience during their fourth year.
Like athletic training, exercise science majors can also seek additional certifications through the National Strength and Conditioning Association or the American College of Sports Medicine to increase opportunities for employment.
Career opportunities for graduates with a B.S. in exercise science range from serving as a personal trainer or corporate fitness/wellness expert to clinical exercise special or clinical exercise physiologist. Other graduates pursue careers as strength and conditioning coaches or pursue additional graduate studies or research.
The College's track record in physical therapy bodes well for these new programs. LVC DPT graduates boast 100 percent job placement rates as well as 100% pass rates on the physical therapy board exam. A strong and active alumni network ensures that athletic training and exercise science graduates will have extensive support during and after program completion.
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Happy Friday! Here are the most interesting tech stories our staff read this week. (more…)
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Ransomware was once a blip on the cyber security radar, but times have changed: Ransomware attacks grew nearly 500 percent, to 3.8 million attacks, from 2014 to 2015.
Ransomware has been headline news ever since hospitals became big targets. One survey found that only 18 percent of hospitals haven't been hit with ransomware attacks. But health care isn't alone: Police departments, schools, and churches are all seeing ransomware attacks grow in frequency. Still, some organizations fail to protect themselves or are simply unaware of the threat ransomware poses. (more…)
SQL 2016 was released on June 1 and licensing will remain mostly consistent for customers; however, there are a few changes that organizations must consider when purchasing or migrating to SQL 2016.
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Compared to the SQL 2014 license models, this round of changes is less complex, but it will still have an impact on your organization. Let's break down each of these adjustments and how to proceed. (more…)
Every day brings new innovations or developments in technology, and this week was no different. Catch up on what's new in tech with our staff picks!
Microsoft finds cancer clues in search queries (Read by Camillia S.)
Microsoft scientists are making strides in e-health by using search engine queries as a way to possibly identify users suffering from pancreatic cancer. Researchers sifted through search data to determine which users may have been already diagnosed and then worked backwards by examining previous queries indicating possible symptoms. With this information, scientists aim to detect cancer quicker and more easily than a trip to the doctor. The data used was anonymous so there was no way to contact the users to determine if they have cancer or if they were searching on behalf of someone else, but researchers are confident that they're onto something. I believe our online habits are quite telling and the earlier cancer is detected the better, so anything helps! (more…)
It was a short week following the Memorial Day holiday, but there's plenty of tech news to highlight, from the escalating fight against ad blockers to a growing trend of cities accommodating "petextrians." Catch up on these and more stories you might have missed with our staff picks!
Why you should delete the online accounts you don't use anymore — right now (Read by Camillia S.)
Up until last Friday, your old social media account credentials weren't worth anything, not even to you. You probably don't remember the password anyway. But all of that changed when a data dump of over 33 gigabytes, consisting of 360 million MySpace usernames and passwords, was listed for sale. Hackers can use this information for phishing and to wreak other kinds of havoc. On Tuesday, MySpace announced that it has disabled all affected passwords so no one can gain access, so while you can't go in and update your Top 8 right away, you should be able to change your password and delete your account for good. Unless you're still into MySpace, in which case … no judgment. (more…)
The 21st edition of Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) was released in April, detailing emerging trends such as the increase in malware, the rise of mega data breaches, and an uptick in ransomware.
The data presented in the ISTR comes from Symantec's Global Intelligence Network, which monitors threat activity in over 157 countries and is made up of 63.8 million attack sensors that record thousands of events per second.
The ISTR highlights some eye-opening security breakdowns: In 2015 alone, ransomware increased 35 percent, more than 100 million fake technical support scams had to be blocked, and vulnerabilities were found in 75 percent of all websites. And because the Internet of Things and smart devices are expected to grow to more than 20 billion units by 2020, the "insecurity of things" remains a huge risk.
A strong security strategy must be a top priority for organizations and their employees alike. Here are three areas in particular that deserve special focus. (more…)
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Boom makes your music sound boomin' and/or slammin' (Read by Camillia S.)
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Happy Friday! This week we're talking origami robots, the benefits of buying used electronics, and more. Wrap up your week by checking out what's new in technology with our staff picks!
Origami robot may operate from inside the body (Read by Camillia S.)
A tiny, foldable robot made out of dried pig intestine will soon be able to operate from inside the body — untethered. It's swallowed as a capsule, which dissolves to allow the origami robot to unfold and get to work. Researchers are expecting the robot to be able to repair wounds or remove small objects that were accidentally swallowed. The demonstration looks like a Lego being jostled around a cavity, but is interesting nonetheless. If any advancement in science can help alleviate doctors' stress and give them more time to tend to life-threatening matters, then I'm all for it! (more…)
Happy Friday! Wrap up your week by checking out what's new in technology with our staff picks!
These grad students didn't know their teaching assistant was a robot (Read by Camillia S.)
I completed my grad school education last year, and after reading this article, I'm wondering if one of my online course instructors had some robotic assistance as well. Grad students at Georgia Tech were floored when they found out the teaching assistant (TA) they had been interacting with, named "Jill Watson," was a robot created on the IBM Watson platform. The professor already had eight TAs, but with 300 students every semester and a whopping 10,000 messages in the online forum, the team needed a hand. A virtual one. This is just one more example of how AI is impacting our lives and how it's here to stay. (more…)


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Maternity Fashion: Yay or Nay 3/22
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by Stacy on Mar. 22, 2014 at 7:34 PM
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I love it but would prefer just a tad longer. I'd still wearit tthough lol
by Silver Member on Mar. 22, 2014 at 7:38 PM
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Yay for around the house. Nay for out. I can just imagine my kids would lift it up and expose my underwear.
Not for me. I always feel huge in empire waist clothing while pregnant, I feel like a tent. I prefer more bump fitting clothes. Still cute though!
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Its cute but I don't think I'd wear it. I prefer more form fitting shirts with comfy pants during pregnancy
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Yay - if I hadn't gained weight in my thighs this pregnancy.
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|Extended httpd by Manick
This is an extended version of the httpd_mod found in the release of php-irc. It is an interesting development from the previous module and is worth taking a look at if you are looking into using php-irc's extended socket abilities.
Click here for the module information page.
This is a support thread. You can ask questions about this mod, or request feature changes as you wish.
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|Can't seem to get this to work with auth=true. It does not promt for a username passowrd as expected just shows the "You are unauthorized to view this page!" directly.
Anyone using this and have a few pointers?
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|Same problem here.
In the httpdext module:
After I tried these settings, I copied over the htdocs folder from the standard httpd mod. The results were the same as before:
Auth on:
http://host You are unauthorized to view this page!
http://user:pass@host You are unauthorized to view this page!
Auth off:
http://host 404 Not Found
http://user:pass@host 404 Not Found
In the bot process, these are the messages that appear when I try to connect to the bot's httpd port:
Accepted new connection on: ###
Killing socket: ###
Closed socket: ###
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Elsa, sung and acted beautifully by Emily Magee, is hiding in the classroom cupboard. She finally comes forward to face the king after Telramund, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, has accused her of drowning her brother Gottfried, the Duke of Brabant. Telramund has been put up to this by his wife Ortrud, played by Luana DeVol. Elsa requests a champion to fight for her and lo and behold, the handsome stranger, John Treleaven, shows up, arising from the floor, piloted by a beautiful swan who is actually Gottfried.
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As I said, the setting is ridiculous. You are watching adults, dressed as children and behaving like children. The king is wearing short pants. Telramund and Ortrud, depicted as children, are nevertheless married. The boys are all waving wooden swords, prepared to go to war for Germany. But, as the action proceeds and the story unfolds, the absurdity of the setting starts to fade away. And you find yourself just watching the fairy tale. At least, I did.Read more ›
But really, it only works (very well) for the relationship between Elsa and Lohengrin and the scenes about the mood of the people - say the second act and the bridal room scene in the third. The first act has too many lines that make no sense in that context, and also, it's hard to care about kids playing war in a classroom, despite some great moments. Ortrud for instance is superbly played and sung, but why does that school girl invokes paian Gods? Why does Telramund invokes his honor and family name?
Musically, it's pretty much meh. The first act is mostly a mess, you rarely can hear most of the soloists in the big ensembles. The more intimate moments are more of a success, and the playing gets better as the opera goes on.
So, it's definitely not a Lohengrin for MET donors, it has many extraordinary moments, but it still leaves whole parts of the opera unaddressed and it is not Konwitschny's best (I find his Götterdämmerung or his Tristan for instance one much superior). And the music doesn't make up for the shortcomings - quite the contrary: it's at it's best when the staging is.
As you have figured out, this performance of Lohengrin is not set in the tradtional middle German period. And this is what gives it its' freshness. From the opening credits an overview is given of the theater where the audience is relaxed and for the most part, caulally dressed. I love that. You get the feeling you could just walk right in and feel comfortable. Unlike the Met where the audience-, well, you get the point. I believe Wagner would appreciate this atmosphere because he wanted everyone to love his works. The director sets the stage in an elementary class room where the innocence of the setting contrasts the tragic nature of the opera. My interpretation of this production is thus: In order for the students, portrayed by the magnificent chorus, to really understand the subject of drama, are given the opportunity by their teacher, in this case the King (portrayed by the outstanding Reinhard Hagen), to actually perform a work of art-Lohengrin. Given this view-point, the classroom setting does not seem strange, odd, or inappropriate to me. The idea, in-itself, lends honor to the work of art that is being performed.Read more ›
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Good(!?) buth "extreme", yes I now, it's PETER KONWITSCHNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Published on July 2, 2014 by Eric Lambrechts
I'ts difficult enjoy one Lohengrin after the Munchen prroduction with Jonas kaufmann.On this productions the singers are good but falts something. Read morePublished on October 23, 2013 by Cláudio Trarbach
Musically surprisingly decent, but the production is a complete travesty.
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If there were a "zero stars" choice I would have rated it zero. Once again we have a director who thinks that substituting his judgment for Wagner's to make some sort of... Read morePublished on November 16, 2010 by NotMyRealName
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A harmonic damper is a device fitted to the free (accessory drive) end of the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine. It is essential in engines with long crankshafts (such as straight-8 engines) and is present on most engines as it reduces torsional vibrations that tend to peak at certain speeds. Torsional vibrations can greatly reduce crankshaft life, if not cause instantaneous failure, if the crankshaft runs at or through resonance. Because of this, dampers are designed with a specific weight and diameter to reduce mechanical Q factor, or damp, crankshaft resonances. Factory dampers are often re-sized in the same basic engine with any factory modification of crankshaft material, thickness, weight, or throw.
Without the presence of a damper a long crankshaft will tend to act as a torsional spring to some extent. Impulses applied to the crankshaft by the connecting rods will tend to "wind" this spring, which will respond (as a spring-mass system) by unwinding and re-winding in the opposite direction. This will usually be damped out naturally, but at certain crankshaft rotational speeds the impulses from the cylinder firing can be in synchronization with the natural resonant frequency. (Some aircraft engines are restricted from continuous operations at specific RPM to avoid the danger of metal fatigue causing a break in the crankshaft.) In an automotive engine there is little control over operation in such specific speed bands and furthermore there may be uncomfortable vibrations as the engine is operated through such speeds, even if not a problem for engine durability.
In many small block V8 engines, such as Ford Windsor and Cleveland, Chevrolet small block 400 and big block 454, and certain Chrysler V8s, a portion of the crankshaft system's overall balancing may be provided by an unbalanced damper.
The modern damper consists of an inner hub affixed usually by a key and keyway to the outer end of the crankshaft. An outer circular mass is attached to the hub by an integral rubber or other elastomeric section. This crankshaft and damper together become (in its torsional response) a spring-mass-damper system. By selection of the damping section material and the size of the outer mass the damper may be made to resist and thus quiet the specific torsional vibrations. These vibrations will not be at the same frequency as originally since additional mass has been added to the resonant system, so the damper must be tuned for the resultant circumstances. The overall appearance is that of a thick disk.
The damper will be fitted at the front of the engine (opposite the clutch or transmission, just beyond the cover of the timing chain, gears, or belt, and behind the accessory drive pulley (which may carry one or more V-belts or a single serpentine cog-belt. In older vehicles there will usually be an inscribed timing mark, there for purposes of setting the ignition timing.
Even though it is a simple system, a damper must be inspected by manufacturer. Long period racing requires more attention than other activities such as drag racing. Damper must be balanced otherwise it will hurt the engine rather than protect it from unwanted vibrations.
Both Frederick Henry Royce and Frederick W. Lanchester have strong claims to the invention of the vibration damper, with the latest research showing Rolls-Royce using a crankshaft slipper (friction) vibration damper on their 1906 30HP models, however Royce had not submitted it for patent. Lanchester had developed a theoretical multi-plate viscous design in 1910. (patent 21,139, 12 September 1910). The brilliance of Fred Lanchester and his many developments was widely hailed. Royce developed a viscous damper in 1912 that was then further developed and carried through to the B60 engine of the 1950s.[1]
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